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Correcting Someone With Facts Often Makes Them Even More Misinformed, Scientists Show
Correcting Someone With Facts Often Makes Them Even More Misinformed, Scientists Show
Continue reading the Original Blog PostYou've been there before. You get in an argument with some pinhead, online or in real life, who is wrong about something. You hit them with a flurry of facts that authoritatively show them they are wrong about that thing. And you get?
You get nowhere. Showing them facts only seems to make them dig in their heels and dedicate their lives to being wrong.
Scientists have noticed this, too, and many of them have come to the same conclusion. Facts don't work. There are some cases when simply...